“every system is perfectly designed to get the
result that it does.”
- W. Edwards Deming
almost.
'“it’s hard to give up something that almost works.”
- Dr. Vincent Felitti
society.
“society… was regarded [by the Desert Fathers] as a shipwreck from which each single individual man had to swim for his life… these were men who believed that to let oneself drift along, passively accepting the tenets and values of what they knew as society, was purely and simply a disaster.”
- Thomas Merton
resolve of men.
“nothing is much weaker than the resolve of
most men.”
- Leif Vollebekk
naïve.
“now i may be completely naïve in saying that, but here in this moment, i believe it to be true.”
- Anonymous
what you love.
“my father could have been a great
comedian but he didn’t believe that that was possible for
him, and so he made a conservative choice. instead, he
got a safe job as an accountant and when i was 12 years
old he was let go from that safe job, and our family had
to do whatever we could to survive. i learned many great
lessons from my father, not the least of which was that:
you can fail at what you don’t want. so you might as well
take a chance on doing what you love.”
- Jim Carrey
any patch of sunlight.
“any patch of sunlight in a wood
will show you something about the sun
which you could never get from
reading books on astronomy,”
- C.S. Lewis
unreasonable passion.
“why else
are we here if not
to live with unreasonable
passion for things.”
- B.R.
psalm 23.
a psalm of david.
The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
He makes me lie down in green pastures.
He leads me beside still waters.
He leads me in paths of righteousness
for His name’s sake.
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil,
for you are with me;
your rod and your staff,
they comfort me.
You prepare a table before me
in the presence of my enemies;
you anoint my head with oil;
my cup overflows.
surely goodness and mercy shall follow me
all the days of my life,
and I shall dwell in the house of the LORD
forever.
waste of life.
“what a terrible waste of life it is, to
always take the easy path, to never
know what it is to risk everything for
what you love.”
- Beau Taplin
writing as an art.
“writing is an underestimated art,
you are painting colorful images
in people’s minds by using words
of black and white.”
- unknown
home.
“some people say home is where you
come from. but i think it’s a place you
need to find, like it’s scattered and you
pick pieces of it up along the way.”
-katie kacvinsky